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  Es

  einsteinium.
• -es
  -es

  a plural suffix occurring in loanwords from Greek.
• E.S.
  E.S.

  abbreviation

  Education Specialist.
• ES
  ES

  abbreviation

  El Salvador (international car registration)
• es
  es

  abbreviation

  Spain

Es

¹ American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. einsteinium.

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-es ² American  

1. a plural suffix occurring in loanwords from Greek.

   Hyades.

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-es ³ American  

1. variant of -s in verbs ending in s, z, ch, sh, or post-consonantal y: passes; buzzes; pitches; dashes; studies.

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-es ⁴ American  

1. variant of -s in nouns ending in s, z, ch, sh, or post-consonantal y, and in nouns ending in f with v in the plural: losses; fuzzes; riches; ashes; babies; sheaves.

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E.S. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Education Specialist.

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-es ¹ British  

suffix

1. for nouns ending in ch, s, sh, z, postconsonantal y, for some nouns ending in a vowel, and nouns in f with v in the plural, a variant of -s 1

   ashes

   heroes

   calves

2. for verbs ending in ch, s, sh, z, postconsonantal y, or a vowel, a variant of -s 1

   preaches

   steadies

   echoes

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ES ² British  

abbreviation

1. El Salvador (international car registration)

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Es ³ British  

symbol

1. einsteinium

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es ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. Spain

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Etymology

Origin of -es

From the Greek suffix -es

Example Sentences

It clarifies: “But use the apostrophe alone for Jesus’ and for ancient and biblical proper names of more than one syllable ending in -es: Demosthenes’ orations, Xerxes’ conquests, Jesus’ birth.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

In nouns the -es of the plural and genitive case is still syllabic— Reede as the berstl-es of a sow-es eer-es.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

At I ii 4, A has omnes, where C1 has omnis, and in general even in A the accusative in -es is the predominant form.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

The present singular, 3rd person, of the indicative, ends both in -es or -s, and -eth or -th, the former being the more usual.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

In English works of the fourteenth century the -en of the Midland, and the -es of the Northumbrian is frequently dropped, thus gradually approximating to our modern conjugation.

From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Morris, Richard